Dear All of Us,
"Wait a minute"
is usually a lot more wait
than it is a minute.
We're a
"Hurry Up,"
"Right Now"
"Amazon Prime"
kind of people and waiting scores
a minus million and more with us.
Yet wait we do on checkout lines
behind sweet souls slowly doling out
wads of coupons, at the airport,
in the doctor's office, trying to get
our new phone to be smart,
pondering ever more portals,
waiting for over-stayed company
to go home so we can go to bed.
Waiting is part and parcel of life.
It's woven into the deepest depths
of our experience all the way out
to being stuck in traffic.
As such it is very much
a dimension of our spiritual lives.
Let's wait a bit here and Soul Sense
The Spirituality of Waiting.
Waiting tells us to be in
the here and now as they are,
not as we demand they be.
It's a reality check,
a humility billable.
Waiting means presence
to what is, as is,
preferred or decidedly not.
Waiting is participation in
God's Eternal Just Now
as it is manifest in this moment
of our awareness of it.
God is transtemporal and
paradoxically quite "timely."
God simply
IS
God is
THE ETERNAL NOW
What's going on in our
time-bound perception of it
is real and really limited.
Waiting means dealing with
Reality
Existence
Being
Is-ness
as it occurs in our experience of
Right Now
Waiting overrides our
clocks and calculations.
Waiting means being there
as there is just now.
There
may be the unfolding of
God's Creation
in our just now
and require waiting
of us.
We wait nine months
for birth.
We wait a season
for crops to mature.
Look at the wait as
the Grand Canyon
was carved out.
Humanity waited
millions of years
to begin understanding
a bit of astrophysics.
There
may be the evolution
of persons and peoples and
mean protracted waiting.
Sarah waited a long time
to conceive.
The enslaved Israelites
waited generations to be freed
and forty more years
trying to get their
spiritual GPS functional.
We wait to find our life mate.
Most of us wait a long time
to see and accept
God's Unlimited Love of us and
God's Unlimited Love as
the true dimension of our being,
the bedrock of Actuality.
We're still waiting to get
Church right and real.
We wait bushels of
years and experience
to mellow into maturity.
Worldwide we are in
a dangerously long wait
to structure our common life on
The Common Good.
There
may mean waiting in
a very bad place
or circumstance
as health and justice
get worked out.
See Jesus on the cross.
See the months it took waiting
for a Covid vaccine.
See the waiting still
to admit and correct the evils
of genocide and enslavement.
See the waiting for a loved one
to work free of addiction.
Oh yes and for sure,
The Spirituality of Waiting
is dealing with
what is,
as is,
in our just now.
It means seeing
where God is in it
and where we are
with God in it.
So we pray for all those
stuck with us in traffic.
We stick with our life mates
in their spin outs.
We wait it out with
the forty something at work
who has the emotional maturity
of a six year old.
We stay the course with
our church that is more
institution than
a community in Love.
We stay open with ourselves
even when we shut down in sin,
waiting for a season of strength,
of restoration, and of freshness.
Things negative and things positive
require that we wait it out
as God works it out with us
and our world.
It means a lot more wait than
just a minute.
But then we have forever
NOW.
Thanks for waiting it out
through this less than sexy part of
spirituality for the street.
Out here with you on the waiting line,
John Frank
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"Wait for the Lord;
be strong,
and let your heart
take courage;
wait for the Lord."
Psalm 27:14
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Every good wish
as many of us celebrate
Thanksgiving
I am deeply thankful for you
and our weekly sharing here at
frankly speaking
spirituality for the street.
This posting marks our
fifth anniversary.
Over these five years
we have had community
with sisters and brothers
from
one hundred homelands.
That's not a boast.
That' a blessing.
Thank You!
See you next week.
I can hardly wait.
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frankly speaking
spirituality for the street
johnfrankshares.blogspot.com
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